1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

New Phi Star Looms onthe Baseball FHorizonBy ALBERT \Y. RATESOregon State, '29r ACiFic COAST PHIS are watching withinterest the major league baseball careerof Wesley Schulmerich, OregonState, '27, who was purchased by theBoston Braves from the Los AngelesAngels at the close of last season for$40,000 and one player. Schulmerich,in three seasons of Pacific Coastleague baseball, had gone to the top asa home-run and all-around hitter andas an exceptionally fast outfielder, despitehis 200 and more pounds.Writing on March 15 from St. Petersburg,Florida, where the Braveswere in spring training, John Kieranof the New York Times said:"Barring accidents the Braves planto swing into the regular campaignwith Wesley Schulmerich, Wally Berger,and Red W'orthington in the outfield.. . ."Schulmerich is a powerful, bowleggedboy of the delicate type usuallyfound juggling pianos or unloadingheavy cases from tramp steamers. Heis a slugger from the Coast League,where he hit away up in high C."Since those lines were written forKieran's "Sports of the Times," theNew York Yankees, also training inFlorida, have tasted the poison ofBrother Schulmerich's bat, which hepitted against those of Brother LouGehrig and Babe Ruth to give the season'straining an auspicious opening.Schulmerich's undergraduate careerat Oregon State brought him greaterfame as a plunging halfback, steady.accurate place-kicker, and bullet passer(Continued on page 478)[475]WESLEY SCHULMERICHOregon State, '27